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This month the words student union acquired a more militant ring when the RAs voted to affiliate with United Auto Workers Local 2322. They became the nation's first group of unionized undergraduate employees, after the university, which opposed unionization, lost a ruling before the Massachusetts labor-relations commission. The vote forges a bond between Generation Y2K and the graying labor movement...
...U.A.W. may be looking to the young and the restless as much in desperation as in hope; if it continues to be better at organizing scholars and curators than machinists and welders, it will soon be the United (Anything but) Auto Workers. But that may be an early clue to the new direction. Today hall monitors, tomorrow...cheerleaders? And how about the athletes, who generate billions of dollars in college and TV revenue? If the top jocks start chanting "Union! Union!", the halls of ivy could tremble from the roar. --Reported by Joe Pappalardo/Amherst
...everyone wins with a new Allston, however. Harvard’s presence threatens to send rents through the roof and force Allston’s young renters to look for new homes. And Allston’s industries and auto-repair shops face a community that wants them out to make way for a new Allston, a homeowner’s paradise...
...side of a busy intersection—where Western Avenue meets North Harvard Street—sits the Bus Stop Pub and a small, crowded lot of cars at Herb Goodman’s Auto Sales, where a yellow smiley face forms the “o” in “Auto...
...other direction, a string of commercial developments—mainly car dealers and auto repair shops—stretches toward a shopping center with K-Mart, Star Market and other chain retailers. The shopping center is also on Harvard-owned land...